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| THE WEEK IN REVIEW 08-14/12/2008 |
| (2008-12-12) |
| Last updated: 2008-12-15 14:54 EET |
The European Council summit in Brussels, the last to be chaired by the French presidency of the European Union, ended with a historic agreement on a 20% reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 2020. Romania’s president Traian Basescu and the incumbent prime minister Calin Popescu Tariceanu said they were satisfied with the fact that the agreement is favourable to Romania in that it acknowledges its efforts to date to cut back on toxic gas emissions. Bucharest also managed to have procedures to access European funds simplified and the time needed to access them reduced. On a political level, European Union leaders established a timetable for the organisation of a new referendum in Ireland on the Lisbon Treaty. The talks in Brussels also dealt with the world economic crisis. Calin Popescu Tariceanu said Romania should take steps to maintain its economic growth and employment rates.
10 days after the legislative elections in Romania, the Romanian president nominated for the position of prime minister the candidate of the pro-presidential Liberal Democratic Party, the party’s vicepresident, Theodor Stolojan. Basescu explained that in the coming period Romania needs a person capable to handle the problems generated by the current economic crisis, a person who has enough authority to ensure the functioning of state institutions. In his opinion, Stolojan meets all these conditions. He held the position of prime minister before, from 1991 to 1992, when Romania’s president was the Social Democrat Ion Iliescu, and later worked as an expert for the World Bank. The new cabinet may be sworn in on the 22nd of December. Here’s Theodor Stolojan speaking about the priorities of his cabinet:
“If this cabinet is approved by Parliament, and I’m convinced it will be, two things need to be done as soon as possible: work out the budget for 2009, in keeping with the government programme, and start a number of reforms that are essential for Romania’s progress: the reform of the education system, the public administration and the healthcare system, as well as other reforms needed in this country.”
The Social Democratic Party implies it has accepted Stolojan’s nomination as a prerogative of the president, while the Democratic Union of Ethnic Hungarians sees it as the right thing at the right time. The Liberals, however, see Stolojan as president’s pet and someone who lacks the moral and political authority to run a coalition government in these trying times.
Sanitary-veterinary authorities in Romania are on alert following the notification of the European Union that pork from Ireland contaminated with dioxin has entered the country. The meat was imported by some companies from France, Belgium, Hungary and Poland and was delivered to salami and meat factories and shops in half of the country. Some of that meat was withdrawn from shops and factories and destroyed. Several European states have taken similar measures, while some even decided to ban all imports of meat from Ireland.
Romania’s biggest car maker, the Dacia factory in Pitesti, in the south, belonging to the French group Renault, interrupted its activity for 30 days starting on the 11th of December. It’s for the 4th time in the last two months that production was suspended. As of January the 1st, over 600 employees will lose their jobs. The factory’s investment budget for 2009 has been cut from 250 to 150 million euros. These measures were taken as a result of the decrease of the domestic and international car market and the invasion of second hand cars from the European Union. In November, Dacia sales on the Romanian market halved. Other Romanian and foreign companies have also announced plans to close down their production units in Romania and to fire or make people redundant temporarily.
Two Romanian football teams left Champions League this week. CFR Cluj and Steaua Bucharest lost their last group Champions League games and also failed to qualify for the EUFA Cup. CFR was defeated 2-1 in an away game in London against Chelsea, while Steaua lost at home nil-1 to the Italian side Fiorentina.
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